Background The Electricity Pool of England and Wales has received constant criticism by the media, from the regulatory body, Offer, and from the House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee since its launch in 1990. The Committee’s report of February 1992 presents many of the criticisms which continued to be levelled at the Pool, and reveals the difficulty the Committee had in deciding whether...

Customary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfil social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land parcels held under individualized tenure. However, when land pressure increases under the combined influences of population growth and market integ...

This paper examines the choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain. Workers in Britain can choose to belong wholly to the social security (public pension) programme, or to a company-provided plan (occupational pension), or to purchase their own individual pension. We use household panel data for the 1990s to show that individuals that subsequently move job select pension arrangements ...

The primary objective of this study was to discover the present state Remote and Flexible work research. In order facilitate systematic review process, investigation follows a predetermined procedure. dataset for research consisted 101 publications published over period 13 years. This explores four themes; related identifying relationship between employment engagement flexible arrangements, con...

Joining up service delivery of multiple organizations often requires public organizations to exchange citizens’ information. To ensure their privacy and realize information security, controlling data access is paramount. However, limited research was found on issues that emerge when realizing data access control in inter-organizational collaboration. Security is typically achieved by implementi...

(preliminary) I propose an integrated approach to analyze the equilibrium level of liquidity in the economy and its relevance to the allocation of credit across different technologies. The provided general equilibrium analysis bears the following main implications: firstly, it shows that security endogeneity is a crucial factor in the explanation of procyclical liquidity; secondly, there is a w...

Many housing and welfare researchers in the last few decades have dealt with the so-called trade-off debate concerning the trade-off between welfare and home ownership. Countries with a high home ownership rate have lower welfare arrangements. The debate is about the causality of this statistical relationship; is welfare low because the home ownership rate is high or is it the other way around....

realism and neo realism as the dominant. approach in the studies of international relations and foreign policy with their emphasis on states and the dominance of structure over the international system do not believe in the role of ethnicity in the foreign policy of states. however, with the end of the cold war, we witness the impact of ethnicity on the security arrangements of sub-systems, esp...